Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist and improviser based between Brooklyn and Berlin. Their solo practice explores material and spatial expressivities of sustained sound through richly noisy timbral actions. Recently their work explores dreamlike acoustic mirages, spatial interferences of difference tones and beating, and draws inspiration from fiction writer Yoko Tawada's proposition that there is no such thing as a room with a fixed size.
About the solo practice: exstatic resonances are wild acoustic phenomena created by indeterminacies within the clarinet’s timbre. Madison’s practice draws on a deep study of the polyphonic qualities of the clarinet, a traditionally monophonic instrument, and explores sonorities that sound outside of themselves, with highly spatial, sculptural, and disorienting qualities. They embrace difference tones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and all the unruly irreducibilities within the clarinet to create an acoustic identity that fractures its own singularity. With sustained circular breathing, they link a mysticism of repetition with the inherent variance latent therein. https://madison-greenstone.com/ [https://madison-greenstone.com/]
Lukas De Clerck’s artistic practice is currently centered around the aulos. An ancient double-reeded double pipe, that got extinct more than a millennium ago. After several years of delving deep in the practice of aulos reed making and playing replicas of ancient instruments, he opens up his inevitably auto-didact artistic output in a more collaborative, multi-disciplinary way. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas. This self-designed instrument, made in collaboration with Noir Metal, enables De Clerck to narrow down his research on the sound qualities of the instrument in which micro-tonality, psycho-acoustics and sound texture are central elements. De Clerck’s approach is driven by playful curiosity with a strong interest in the process of transformation. Instead of conserving what is found, he invents what is not. A process that aims to be as radical, as it is careful. https://lukasdeclerck.com [https://lukasdeclerck.com]
Jamie Green (@besompresse) is a musician or poet from Los Angeles, whose work affectionately tussles with precisely those sorts of famously onerous perennialisms which can only be rendered susceptible by the bubble and toil of metaphysical humours and a healthy, hearty disdain for academic gentility, all the while struggling toward a consummate transcension of comprehension. He operates besom presse, a publisher especially concerned with perceptually activated works. His musical focus is on breathed-into instruments, namely the Sardinian launeddas which consist of three reed pipes played simultaneously, snatched from the soil, working with them in both their crafting and sounding phases.
Julie Murphy (voice and shruti box) and Ceri Rhys Matthews (flute) are founder members of groundbreaking Welsh folk group Fernhill. Together they perform traditional songs and dance tunes from Wales and beyond, with particular emphasis on the music and poetry of west Wales. Their musical rapport is breath for breath and their musical evocations of landscape and culture are timeless and universal. They have toured worldwide and their music has been featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and Late junction, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Alba, BBC Radio 2 and stations across Europe.
"Their music is rapturous and alive" THE GUARDIAN
"Such a beautiful voice. A great, great singer” ROBERT PLANT
Mae Julie Murphy (llais a srwti) a Ceri Rhys Matthews (ffliwt) yn sylfaenwyr o’r grŵp gwerin Cymreig arloesol fernhill. Gyda'i gilydd maent yn perfformio caneuon traddodiadol ac alawon dawns o Gymru a thu hwnt, gyda phwyslais arbennig ar gerddoriaeth a barddoniaeth gorllewin Cymru. Maent wedi teithio ledled y byd ac mae eu cerddoriaeth wedi cael sylw ar In Tune and Late Junction BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Alba, BBC Radio 2 a gorsafoedd ledled Ewrop.